Dialogue on Awakening
"Clearly align your focus on the feeling you wish to have from your experience, you will have defined the meaning it holds for you. All the details necessary to facilitate that meaning, that occurrence, will happen without any additional efforting on your part." [Dialogue on Awakening, page 172]
The 'Spirit of God' is the Will of God, an attribute of His Mind or consciousness. Will is the essence of Mind differentiated and activated as in thinking; desirous of an Idea.
'Spirit' then is the motivating or activating of this process.
"That as would be manifested must first be in spirit, then in mind, then in material activity. For, this is the evolution of the earth, the evolution of things, the evolution of ideas and of ideals." Cayce (3132-1)
"Spirit is the First Cause. Mind is an effect, or an active force that partakes of spiritual as well as material import. Mind is an essence or a flow between Spirit and that which is made manifest materially.
"God, the First Cause, in spirit, created in spirit the separate influences or forces that are a portion of, and manifested in the spirit of God. In that essence, to become materially manifested through the evolution of the spirit of God, sin first began.
"The first concept as may be had of that in materiality is that it is an essence, without form, save as it begins to manifest, - as would be gas, odor, wind, smoke, - yet that it has with it the will, the mind, the power to make manifest by that with which, in which, it manifests, - as does also odor, gas, wind and the like.
"Thus - as the activities came - we may assume that the First Cause was Spirit, Mind, Will." Cayce (262-123)
"The spirit is the impelling influence of infinity, or the one creative source, force, that is manifest. ... spirit is the life-giving force in every condition, whether of mental or material action." Cayce (5749-3)
"Mr. Keely affirms, with other philosophers, that there is only one unique substance, and that this substance is the Divine spirit of life, and that this spirit of life is God, who fills everything with his thoughts, disjoining and grouping together these multitudes of thoughts in different bodies called atmospheres, fluids, matters, animal, vegetable, and mineral forms." [Clara Bloomfield-Moore]Rudolf Steiner
“The will is there to harness human energy to mechanical energy. These things should not be treated by fighting against them. That is a completely false view. These things will not fail to appear; they will come. What we are concerned with is whether, in the course of world history, they are entrusted to people who are familiar in a selfless way with the great aims of earthly evolution and who structure these things for the health of human beings or whether they are enacted by groups of human beings who exploit these things in an egotistical or in a group-egotistical sense. That is what matters. It is not a question of the what in this case; the what is sure to come. It is a question of the how, how one tackles these situations. The what lies simply in the meaning of earthly evolution. The welding together of the human nature with the mechanical nature will be a problem of great significance for the remainder of earthly evolution.
I have deliberately drawn attention often, even in public lectures, to the fact that the consciousness of the human being is connected with the forces of disintegration. On two occasions I have said in public lectures in Basel that within our nervous system we are dying. These forces, these forces of dying away, will become more and more powerful. The bond will be established between these forces dying within man, which are related to the electric, magnetic forces, and the outer mechanical forces. Man will to a certain extent become his intentions, he will be able to direct his thoughts into the mechanical forces. Hitherto undiscovered forces within human nature will be discovered, forces that will work on outer electric and magnetic forces. The first problem is to bring together human beings with the mechanical, which will have to prevail increasingly in the future. The second problem consists in calling upon the help of the spiritual circumstances. This can only be done, however, when the time is ripe and when a sufficient number of people are prepared for it in the right way.” [Rudolf Steiner, https://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ReapChrist/19171125p01.html]
See Also
18.08 - Ideals Guide Mind - Cayce
Comtes Positive Philosophy
Desire
Fohat
How your Mind creates your experiences
Idea
Idea of Mind
Ideal
Inert Gas
Mind-Idea
Spirit
Will